Binder attachment for sewing-machines



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Patented Feb. 13, 1894.

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UNITED STATES PATENT MARY BIKER, OF YONKER-S, NEW YORK.

BINDER ATTACHMENT FQR SEWING-MACHlNES.

SPECIFICATION formingI part of Letters Patent No. 514,606, datedFebruary 13, 1894. Applioationtllcd June 23, 1893- Serial No. 478,625.(No model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARY BIKER, a citizen of the United States, residingat Yonkers, Westchester county, New York, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Binders for SewingMachines, of which thefollowing is a specification.

In binding hats by machine it is common to apply a strip to the edges ofthe hat rim by means of a guide secured to the workplate of the machine,which guide receives the edge of the hat rim and also doubles or foldsround the latter, the strip of binding so that the rim with the stripfolded upon it is properly presented to the needle. An illustration ofthis character of guide may be found in Letters Patent to J. L. Coles,No. 112,019, dated February 21, 1871. W'hile a guide of the characterdescribed is eifective to the extent of properly applying the strip tothe hat rim and in relation to the needle it cannot be effectivelyemployed in connecting together the ends of the strip an operation whichmust be doneby hand.

My improvement has for its vobject to enable the operator not only topresent the rim and binding properly to the needle as before but also topermit the end of the binding to be folded in and upon the rim and sopresented to the needle that the binding can be secured to the hat itsentire length by means of the machine, and to this end I construct abinder, as fully set forth hereinafter and as illustrated in theaccompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a perspective View of myirnproved binder, illustrating the position of the hat rim and bindingstrip just prior to connecting the ends of the strip to the brim. Fig. 2is a longitudinal section of the binder. Fig. 3 is a sectionillustrating the manner in which the strips are arranged prior to beingpresented to the needle. Y

The binder is provided with a plate A, adapted for attachment to thework-plate of a sewing machine and with two plates each bent to aU-shape onesmaller than the other the plate c, adapted to receive theedge 4of the rim and the plate d, which is folded on 5o the plate c, butis separated therefrom and adapted to receive the binding, these platesc, and d, being properly supported in position, as illustrated in Fig.2, upon the plate A in a manner too well known to need description. Theinner edges of the plates c, d, are on about the saine vertical planeadjacent to the point where the needle m, penetrates the fabric.Heretofore the outer edges of the plates have been upon the samevertical plane, but instead of adopting this construction I make theplato c, much longer than the plate d, so that there is an extension cof the plate c, beyond the end of the plate d and forward of said plateso as to be first met by the approaching end of the binding.

The hat rino is introduced into the guide c, and the strip y, 0f bindingmaterial is introduced between the guides o, d, as usual and the sewingis conducted in the ordinary mannner untilthe meeting ends of thebinding y are brought adjacent to the extension c of the guide c. As theforward end of the binding, that is the loose end nearest the needle iscarried over the forward end of the extension c', just after the otherend of the binding, which has been sewed to the rim is carried inside ofsaid extension the operator folds in the forward loose end upon itself,as illustrated in Fig. 3, and then doubles this infolded end around theextension e along which it is carried as the rim of the hat travels inthe direction of the arrow, until the infolded end passes from the endof the guide c, and onto the rim inclosing the opposite end of thebinding just prior to passing beneath the needle which continues theseam along the inner edges of the binding and across the joint formed asabove described.

It will be seen that the infolded end of the binding is thus foldedclose around the edge of the hat and laid close onto the rim inclosingthe other end of the binding and secured permanently in place by the rowof stitching thereby forming a neat and durable joint not liable to openor fray without the necessity of any hand sewing.

While I have described my invention in connection with the particularform of binder shown in said Coles patent, it will be evident that thesame may be used in connec- ICO tion with other forms of binders wherethere allel with the path of movement of the fabare two U-shaped guideswith passages for ric beyond the end of the outer guide and the bindingstrip between them. forming` an extension c', substantially as andWithout limiting myself to the precise confor-the purpose set forth. t 55 struction and arrangement shown and de- In testimony whereof I havesigned my scribed, I claimname to this specification in the presence ofThe combination in a binder of stationary two subscribing Witnesses.

U-shaped guides, one arranged within the MARY RIKER. i

other with an intervening space for the pas-- Witnesses:

xo sage of the binding material, the forward end ANNIE MARRAN,

of the inner guide proj ccting in a line par- GEORGE C. MARRAN.

